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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS—D

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Skene MSS, p. 61, stanzas 19-24: taken down in the north or northeast of Scotland, 1802-03.

1

[OMITTED]
‘O had your hand a while!
For yonder comes my father,
I'm sure he'l borrow me.

2

‘O some of your goud, father,
An of your well won fee!
To save me [frae the high hill],
[And] frae the gallow-tree.’

3

‘Ye's get nane of my goud,
Nor of my well won fee,
For I would gie five hundred poun
To see ye hangit hie.’

4

[OMITTED]
‘O had yer hand a while!
Yonder is my love Willie,
Sure he will borrow me.

5

‘O some o your goud, my love Willie,
An some o yer well won fee!
To save me frae the high hill,
And frae the gallow-tree.’

6

‘Ye's get a' my goud,
And a' my well won fee,
To save ye fra the headin-hill,
And frae the gallow-tree.’
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